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Lattice softening effects at the Mott critical point of Cr-doped VO
We have performed sound velocity measurements in (VCr)O
in the vicinity of the critical point of the first order Mott transition line.
The pressure sweeps at constant temperature reveal a large dip in the
compression modulus, this dip sharpens as the critical point is approached. We
do not observe signs of criticality on the shear modulus which is
consistent with a transition governed by a scalar order parameter, in
accordance with the DMFT description of the transition. However, the amplitude
of the effect is an order of magnitude smaller than the one obtained from DMFT
calculations for a single band Hubbard model. We analyze our results using a
simple model with the electronic response function obtained from the scaling
relations for the conductivity
Universality and Critical Behavior at the Mott transition
We report conductivity measurements of Cr-doped V2O3 using a variable
pressure technique. The critical behavior of the conductivity near the
Mott-insulator to metal critical endpoint is investigated in detail as a
function of pressure and temperature. The critical exponents are determined, as
well as the scaling function associated with the equation of state. The
universal properties of a liquid-gas transition are found. This is potentially
a generic description of the Mott critical endpoint in correlated electron
materials.Comment: 3 figure
Two Genera of Tettigellidae Proposed by Melichar
Author Institution: North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleig
The Massachusetts Volunteers : Two Step
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Resource-Efficient Chemistry on Quantum Computers with the Variational Quantum Eigensolver and the Double Unitary Coupled-Cluster Approach.
Applications of quantum simulation algorithms to obtain electronic energies of molecules on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices require careful consideration of resources describing the complex electron correlation effects. In modeling second-quantized problems, the biggest challenge confronted is that the number of qubits scales linearly with the size of the molecular basis. This poses a significant limitation on the size of the basis sets and the number of correlated electrons included in quantum simulations of chemical processes. To address this issue and enable more realistic simulations on NISQ computers, we employ the double unitary coupled-cluster (DUCC) method to effectively downfold correlation effects into the reduced-size orbital space, commonly referred to as the active space. Using downfolding techniques, we demonstrate that properly constructed effective Hamiltonians can capture the effect of the whole orbital space in small-size active spaces. Combining the downfolding preprocessing technique with the variational quantum eigensolver, we solve for the ground-state energy of H2, Li2, and BeH2 in the cc-pVTZ basis using the DUCC-reduced active spaces. We compare these results to full configuration-interaction and high-level coupled-cluster reference calculations
Simulations of Strong Gravitational Lensing with Substructure
Galactic sized gravitational lenses are simulated by combining a cosmological
N-body simulation and models for the baryonic component of the galaxy. The lens
caustics, critical curves, image locations and magnification ratios are
calculated by ray-shooting on an adaptive grid. When the source is near a cusp
in a smooth lens' caustic the sum of the magnifications of the three closest
images should be close to zero. It is found that in the observed cases this sum
is generally too large to be consistent with the simulations implying that
there is not enough substructure in the simulations. This suggests that other
factors play an important role. These may include limited numerical resolution,
lensing by structure outside the halo, selection bias and the possibility that
a randomly selected galaxy halo may be more irregular, for example due to
recent mergers, than the isolated halo used in this study. It is also shown
that, with the level of substructure computed from the N-body simulations, the
image magnifications of the Einstein cross type lenses are very weak functions
of source size up to \sim 1\kpc. This is also true for the magnification
ratios of widely separated images in the fold and cusp caustic lenses. This
means that selected magnification ratios for different the emission regions of
a lensed quasar should agree with each other, barring microlensing by stars.
The source size dependence of the magnification ratio between the closest pair
of images is more sensitive to substructure.Comment: 28 pages, 2 tables and 14 figures. Accepted to MNRA
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